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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ
CURRENTS
Vol. 1, No. 7
Published monthly by the Office of Public Information for the campus community
April 1991
Campus water rationing in effect despite rains
The good news is that heavy
March rains raised area water
levels; the bad news is—not
enough. Water restrictions
took effect in Santa Cruz
April 1. "It looks like we'll be in
better shape than we ever thought
we would be," city water conservation director Anne-Marie
Mitroff said in late March. "We're
cautiously optimistic that there
will not be rationing, but we won't
know until mid- or late April,"
she added.
Even if city users never need to
ration, UCSC is already doing so
and is likely to continue as long as
restrictions are in effect. Rationing
differs from restrictions in that it
limits the amount of water used
rather than the times of use. UCSC
can opt for rationing along with
such businesses as golf courses,
cemeteries, and highway landscapers—large-turf customers. "The
primary reason for opting for
rationing is that we have a lot of
irrigation users on campus and we
do not have the personnel to cover
all the watering needs in two days,
which is what we would get under
restrictions," explained campus
utilities analyst Dan Veroff. "We
believe we can make this ration
(for UCSC, 12 percent less than
campus usage in 1987), and the
bonus for us is that we can use this
water anytime we want to," he
added.
The city's principal water
sources are the San Lorenzo River
and some coastal streams, but the
Loch Lomond Reservoir—mostly a
backup water source—is the gauge
used to determine how bountiful
our water supply is each year.
According to Mitroff, the reservoir
is considered full at 577 feet; as of
March 26 the level was 547.3 feet,
at 51 percent of capacity. That is
approximately the same level the
reservoir was last year at this
time. Rationing is still a real possibility in Santa Cruz, and, barring
torrential rains this month, restrictions will remain in effect.
[Photograph] Sinsheimer Laboratories is the setting for this photograph by Joel Leivick, one of three alumni photographers commissioned to record images of
the campus for UCSC's 25th anniversary. A selection of the photographs is included in the exhibit "Campus Documentations, A 25th Year
Celebration: The Compass and The Lens," on view through April 28 at Porter College Faculty Gallery and Sesnon Gallery.
UCSC physicists oversee critical
element of super collider project
One decade from now, in a
tunnel beneath the Texas
plains, bits of matter whirling
at nearly the speed of light will
smash together 100 million
times each second and create
microscopic suns. The exotic
debris will zip through complex
detectors, triggering signals that
computers will study and—in
almost every case—throw away.
But a few times a second, the
computers may find evidence of
extraordinary particles and forces
that have not existed since the
earliest instants of the big bang,
the explosion that probably created
our universe. We will then move
closer to understanding how the
universe, and everything in it,
came to be.
So goes the thinking behind
the $8.3 billion Superconducting
Super Collider (SSC), the largest
and costliest scientific project
ever attempted. This grand
experiment involves hundreds
of researchers, including about
a dozen from the Santa Cruz
Institute for Particle Physics
(SCIPP) at UCSC. SCIPP's
physicists are in charge of developing the critical central core of one
of the SSC's two main detectors.
"This is the most significant
project we've been involved in, by
far," says SCIPP director Abraham
Seiden. As project coordinator,
Seiden will synchronize the efforts
of researchers from Japan, the
Soviet Union, Italy, Great Britain,
and across the U.S.
The SSC is progressing fitfully
toward its scheduled completion in
1999. While the Department of
See Super collider on page 8
[Photograph] SCIPP director Abraham Seiden (left), physicist Hartmut Sadrozinski (seated), and
postdoctoral researcher Daniel Pitzl with a styrofoam model of the inner part of the
Superconducting Super Collider detector.
Professor predicts emergence of
'superpatriots' in war's aftermath
hen the cheering dies down
from the Desert Storm
victory, voices will be heard
calling for strong defenses
against foreign enemies,
predicts professor of economics
David Kaun.
Kaun notes that throughout
U.S. history, from Paul Revere
to the Committee on the Present
Danger, which flourished in the
mid-1970s and included Ronald
Reagan among its members, there
have been seemingly knowledgeable men and women in influential
positions who consider it their
duty to "wake up" the nation to
an external threat. They have come
to be known as "superpatriots."
As part of his research on
military spending, Kaun has
studied superpatriotic groups,
which often heavily influence
defense budgets. He notes that in
the last two years they have been
hard-pressed to deliver their message. "With defense-spending scandals, the opening of Europe, the
tearing down of the Berlin Wall,
Warsaw Pact nations disbanding,
U.S.—Soviet arms negotiations,
and talk of peace dividends, the
superpatriots have been somewhat
frustrated," says Kaun. "Now the
Gulf War has changed all that."
Despite the American people's
natural longing for a return to
normalcy and civilian peacetime
following a war, the superpatriots
see this as a time to be wary, he
says. "The patriot's message is
always that the enemy is smarter,
[Photograph] David Kaun
shrewder, and craftier than us.
According to superpatriots,
Americans are naive, peace-loving
people who will give away the store
if we sit down and negotiate with
our former enemies, Kaun adds.
"I can't predict the next year
and a half," says Kaun, "but I'm
sure that strong and loud super-
patriot voices will be raised. We
will not go back to peace as usual.
We are already seeing tension with
the Soviets ovet their interest in
having a position of strength and
influence in the Middle East,
perceived by some to counter our
interest. That is going to be used
to derail the START disarmament
talks and to reverse what superpatriots consider an alarming cutback
in military spending," he says.
Contrary to what many people
might think, contemporary
superpatriots are not motivated
by personal gain through defense-
spending schemes, says Kaun.
See Superpatriots on page 8
Inside
News 2-3
Plans for Natural Sciences 4—the new
Earth and Marine Sciences Building—get final approval. See page 2.
Calendar
[Photograph] DanceBrazil performs Afro-Brazilian
music, contemporary dance, and the martial
art form of capoiera Saturday, April 20.
Digest 6-7
Vice Chancellor Wendell Brase
examines the state budget crisis and
its impact on UCSC in Perspective.
Currents / April 1991

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ
CURRENTS
Vol. 1, No. 7
Published monthly by the Office of Public Information for the campus community
April 1991
Campus water rationing in effect despite rains
The good news is that heavy
March rains raised area water
levels; the bad news is—not
enough. Water restrictions
took effect in Santa Cruz
April 1. "It looks like we'll be in
better shape than we ever thought
we would be," city water conservation director Anne-Marie
Mitroff said in late March. "We're
cautiously optimistic that there
will not be rationing, but we won't
know until mid- or late April,"
she added.
Even if city users never need to
ration, UCSC is already doing so
and is likely to continue as long as
restrictions are in effect. Rationing
differs from restrictions in that it
limits the amount of water used
rather than the times of use. UCSC
can opt for rationing along with
such businesses as golf courses,
cemeteries, and highway landscapers—large-turf customers. "The
primary reason for opting for
rationing is that we have a lot of
irrigation users on campus and we
do not have the personnel to cover
all the watering needs in two days,
which is what we would get under
restrictions," explained campus
utilities analyst Dan Veroff. "We
believe we can make this ration
(for UCSC, 12 percent less than
campus usage in 1987), and the
bonus for us is that we can use this
water anytime we want to," he
added.
The city's principal water
sources are the San Lorenzo River
and some coastal streams, but the
Loch Lomond Reservoir—mostly a
backup water source—is the gauge
used to determine how bountiful
our water supply is each year.
According to Mitroff, the reservoir
is considered full at 577 feet; as of
March 26 the level was 547.3 feet,
at 51 percent of capacity. That is
approximately the same level the
reservoir was last year at this
time. Rationing is still a real possibility in Santa Cruz, and, barring
torrential rains this month, restrictions will remain in effect.
[Photograph] Sinsheimer Laboratories is the setting for this photograph by Joel Leivick, one of three alumni photographers commissioned to record images of
the campus for UCSC's 25th anniversary. A selection of the photographs is included in the exhibit "Campus Documentations, A 25th Year
Celebration: The Compass and The Lens," on view through April 28 at Porter College Faculty Gallery and Sesnon Gallery.
UCSC physicists oversee critical
element of super collider project
One decade from now, in a
tunnel beneath the Texas
plains, bits of matter whirling
at nearly the speed of light will
smash together 100 million
times each second and create
microscopic suns. The exotic
debris will zip through complex
detectors, triggering signals that
computers will study and—in
almost every case—throw away.
But a few times a second, the
computers may find evidence of
extraordinary particles and forces
that have not existed since the
earliest instants of the big bang,
the explosion that probably created
our universe. We will then move
closer to understanding how the
universe, and everything in it,
came to be.
So goes the thinking behind
the $8.3 billion Superconducting
Super Collider (SSC), the largest
and costliest scientific project
ever attempted. This grand
experiment involves hundreds
of researchers, including about
a dozen from the Santa Cruz
Institute for Particle Physics
(SCIPP) at UCSC. SCIPP's
physicists are in charge of developing the critical central core of one
of the SSC's two main detectors.
"This is the most significant
project we've been involved in, by
far," says SCIPP director Abraham
Seiden. As project coordinator,
Seiden will synchronize the efforts
of researchers from Japan, the
Soviet Union, Italy, Great Britain,
and across the U.S.
The SSC is progressing fitfully
toward its scheduled completion in
1999. While the Department of
See Super collider on page 8
[Photograph] SCIPP director Abraham Seiden (left), physicist Hartmut Sadrozinski (seated), and
postdoctoral researcher Daniel Pitzl with a styrofoam model of the inner part of the
Superconducting Super Collider detector.
Professor predicts emergence of
'superpatriots' in war's aftermath
hen the cheering dies down
from the Desert Storm
victory, voices will be heard
calling for strong defenses
against foreign enemies,
predicts professor of economics
David Kaun.
Kaun notes that throughout
U.S. history, from Paul Revere
to the Committee on the Present
Danger, which flourished in the
mid-1970s and included Ronald
Reagan among its members, there
have been seemingly knowledgeable men and women in influential
positions who consider it their
duty to "wake up" the nation to
an external threat. They have come
to be known as "superpatriots."
As part of his research on
military spending, Kaun has
studied superpatriotic groups,
which often heavily influence
defense budgets. He notes that in
the last two years they have been
hard-pressed to deliver their message. "With defense-spending scandals, the opening of Europe, the
tearing down of the Berlin Wall,
Warsaw Pact nations disbanding,
U.S.—Soviet arms negotiations,
and talk of peace dividends, the
superpatriots have been somewhat
frustrated," says Kaun. "Now the
Gulf War has changed all that."
Despite the American people's
natural longing for a return to
normalcy and civilian peacetime
following a war, the superpatriots
see this as a time to be wary, he
says. "The patriot's message is
always that the enemy is smarter,
[Photograph] David Kaun
shrewder, and craftier than us.
According to superpatriots,
Americans are naive, peace-loving
people who will give away the store
if we sit down and negotiate with
our former enemies, Kaun adds.
"I can't predict the next year
and a half," says Kaun, "but I'm
sure that strong and loud super-
patriot voices will be raised. We
will not go back to peace as usual.
We are already seeing tension with
the Soviets ovet their interest in
having a position of strength and
influence in the Middle East,
perceived by some to counter our
interest. That is going to be used
to derail the START disarmament
talks and to reverse what superpatriots consider an alarming cutback
in military spending," he says.
Contrary to what many people
might think, contemporary
superpatriots are not motivated
by personal gain through defense-
spending schemes, says Kaun.
See Superpatriots on page 8
Inside
News 2-3
Plans for Natural Sciences 4—the new
Earth and Marine Sciences Building—get final approval. See page 2.
Calendar
[Photograph] DanceBrazil performs Afro-Brazilian
music, contemporary dance, and the martial
art form of capoiera Saturday, April 20.
Digest 6-7
Vice Chancellor Wendell Brase
examines the state budget crisis and
its impact on UCSC in Perspective.
Currents / April 1991